Prison Service Journal

This edition of Prison Service Journal , guest edited by Paul Crossey, take a look at the moral, cultural, societal and psychological implications of the opening, closing and operating of prisons.

This edition of Prison Service Journal , organised around the theme of breaking the cycle of reconviction, raises broader questions about occupational and organisational culture as well as the philosophy of punishment.

The 2013 Perrie Lectures series, with the theme of ‘Contraction in an age of expansion’, form the core of the articles in this edition of Prison Service Journal .

This edition of Prison Service Journal includes an article by Terence Morris, who died before the edition was published. It is dedicated to his pioneering and principled work on prisons.

This edition of Prison Service Journal takes the issue of race as its focal point and has been co-edited with members of the National Offender Management Service’s Equalities Group, Matt Wotton and Claire Cooper.